"Underemployed" picks up one year after their college graduation when reality has set in and the group struggles, often comically, to stay optimistic through the major life changes young twentysomethings know all too well, including dead-end jobs, terrible bosses and romantic mistakes. This group of old friends becomes a new family as they go through all the highs and lows in their newfound adult lives and prove together that if life is about living, none of them are underemployed.
Sophia struggles to hold on to her dreams of becoming a writer, as she serves maple bacon bars at Donut Girl, while Daphne continues to toil as an unpaid and unnoticed intern at an advertising agency. Lou and Raviva ended their relationship when she left for Los Angeles to become a famous singer, leaving Lou on his quest to save the environment, but all that changes when she shows up on his doorstep nine-months pregnant. Meanwhile, Miles aspires to be a world famous model, the face of a major ad campaign, but instead finds himself serving mojitos and mini-tacos in his skivvies.
After failing with I Want My Pants Back, MTV has another chance to speak to this work depressed generation. Not that everyone is willing to give MTV another chance. Mike Hale in a New York Times story warns:
“Underemployed,” an hourlong dramedy that begins on Tuesday night, is a botch, an attempt to do a dirty-sexy-funny show about struggling (but great-looking) millennials that’s so creaky and clichéd hardly a moment rings true. If it demonstrates anything, it’s the inadvisability of a 40-something producer (Mr. Wright) creating and supervising a show based on the life of his 20-something son.
So what else is happening at MTV? Rumors are circulating that Teen Wolf's Colton Haynes may not return for a third season, which does not really make a lot of sense given the arc of his character. MTV via Facebook has now confirmed rumors are true:
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